European Explorers
This Italian explorer sailed for Spain in 1492 and is credited with “discovering” the Americas.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
Spanish missions were built to spread this religion.
What is Catholicism?
Name one of the “Three G’s” that motivated European exploration.
What is Gold, Glory, or God?
Cabeza de Vaca wrote about this Native tribe who helped him survive in Texas.
Who are the Karankawa?
This river was mapped by Pineda in 1519, helping define Spanish claims.
What is the Rio Grande?
He was the first European to explore the Texas coast in 1519.
Who is Alonso Álvarez de Pineda?
This famous mission in San Antonio is known as the site of a later battle for Texas independence.
What is the Alamo (Mission San Antonio de Valero)?
Europeans wanted to spread this religion to Native peoples.
What is Christianity (Catholicism)?
Coronado’s expedition encountered this group of Plains Natives in the Panhandle.
Who are the Apache? (or Plains tribes like the Wichita/Tonkawa, Commance)
After conquering the Aztec Empire Hernan Cortes renamed Tenochtitlan to __________.
what Mexico City?
He was shipwrecked near Galveston in 1528 and lived among Native Texans for years.
Who is Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca?
Missions were usually paired with these for protection.
What are presidios (forts)?
Spain hoped to gain this type of wealth by controlling new lands.
What is land/resources or precious metals?
This tribe often resisted Spanish mission life by fleeing or raiding.
Who are the Comanche?
This city became the center of Spanish mission efforts in Texas.
What is San Antonio?
This conquistador searched for the Seven Cities of Gold in the Texas Panhandle.
Who is Francisco Vázquez de Coronado?
Spain used missions to claim land and convert Native Texans. What else did missions try to do?
What is teach European farming, ranching, or skills?
This term describes the competition between Spain and France in Texas.
What is rivalry for land/power?
Many Native Texans died after contact with Europeans due to this.
What is disease (smallpox, measles, etc.)?
The Spanish built missions in East Texas in response to the French presence here.
What is Fort St. Louis?
This French explorer built Fort St. Louis in Texas, sparking Spanish concern.
Who is René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle?
Name one reason most missions in Texas failed.
What is Native resistance, disease, isolation, lack of interest, or attacks?
Name two hardships explorers faced in Texas.
What are disease, hunger, conflict with Native Texans, storms, shipwrecks, etc.?
Which Native group is linked to the legend of the Seven Cities of Gold?
Who are the Pueblo peoples?
This 1718 mission became the first permanent Spanish settlement in San Antonio.
What is Mission San Antonio de Valero (the Alamo)?